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Donn Esmonde likes the plan to control sprawl that was approved by local politicians.  I don’t!

Sprawl is the result of too many government regulations and adding more will only make things worse.  Logic will tell you that making the city more attractive to live in will take care of sprawl without forcing people to live in designated areas.  The steps needed are steps that would allow people to live and build in the location of their choice.  This is America and freedom is supposed to be one of our strong points.  Here’s the plan:

• eliminate regulations that inhibit development in the City of Buffalo
• reduce the size of government, government spending and taxation
• offer real school choice for all students

If the above steps were initiated you would see people moving back into Buffalo combined with economic and job growth.  Sprawl is an issue that needs to be looked at from an economic viewpoint.  Many different aspects of government policies affect where people live.

Drawing up a plan with more regulations that limits freedom is reactive and will do more harm than good.  Many areas, such as Portland, Oregon, have found that smart growth plans have succeeded in driving people to even more distant places so they can escape the regulations.

We don’t need a Smart Growth plan, we just need a Smart Plan.

In light of the massacre at VA Tech, campus safety is a very hot issue this week.  A fairly lengthy article in today’s Buffalo News, Area Colleges Reassessing Security, discusses various approaches to this problem.

The “solutions” proposed are mostly reactive measures that will do little to prevent unnecessary harm to students.  The one commonsense solution is not even discussed. 

Responsible citizens should be allowed, in accordance with the 2nd Amendment, to carry concealed weapons on campus.  Not only would this be a preventative measure reducing the likelihood of a campus slaughter, it would increase the likelihood that a shooter would be stopped before a mass murder takes place.

Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) has a simple solution to future shooting massacres such as the one that ripped apart Virginia Tech university Monday: more guns.

“People are a little more cautious if somebody might have a gun there,” the GOP presidential candidate told Politico reporters Tuesday. “A concealed gun carried by a responsible person — that might have ended the problem that they had at Virginia Tech with one person being killed or two people being killed.”

Paul, 71, is the kind of lawmaker, and presidential candidate, gun control advocates love to hate at moments like this. And, based on public opinion polls and reader feedback at Politico.com, he’s far from alone.

“I know there will be a call for, ‘Boy, we’ve got to take hold of every single gun and register the gun.’ It’s sort of like after 9/11, we had to worry about terrorists, but what we’ve done is register every American,” he said. “With national ID cards, inspection and loss of our liberties, warrantless searches, we’ve attacked law-abiding citizens. So, no, I don’t think we need more gun control for law-abiding citizens.”

The enemies of the Constitution are growing in number and are to be found now, not just in the White House and the Congress, but also in state capitals, from Washington to Vermont.

Not only do we have a president and vice president who are almost daily undermining and rending at the fabric of the Constitution. Not only do we have Democratic Party leaders actively barring the party’s elected representatives from standing up to the president by submitting bills of impeachment, as called for in the Constitution.

We now have Democratic Party leaders in state legislatures betraying Founder Thomas Jefferson, by sabotaging grassroots efforts to get joint legislative resolutions passed demanding the start of impeachment proceedings in the House.

Thomas Jefferson, a complex and personally deeply conflicted human being was, as a philosopher of government, incredibly prescient. Not only did he foresee the critical need for a section laying out the inalienable rights of man in the nation’s founding document. He also understood the concept of a “beltway bubble” long before there were even paved roads, much less interstate highway beltways.

Jefferson understood that a monomaniacal and unprincipled president, particularly in time of war or national crisis, could intimidate members of Congress-particularly a weak Congress riven by political rivalries-and prevent that body from going forward with impeachment. He understood that members of Congress themselves, remote geographically and politically from their constituents, could eventually become so isolated they would fail to act in accordance with the wishes of the voters who sent them to Washington. That’s why Jefferson came up with an alternative way of initiating impeachment proceedings, in addition to the standard Constitutionally-prescribed method of having a House member submit an impeachment bill. His solution, laid out in his Manual of the Rules of the House, was to allow a joint resolution by any state’s legislature calling for impeachment to also require the House to initiate impeachment.

Over the past year, there have been grassroots campaigns underway in at least 10 states to get such resolutions passed.

Unfortunately, the Democratic leaders of a number of state legislatures, working in collusion with, or at the direction of even more craven Democratic Party leaders in Washington, are undermining Jefferson, and are sabotaging his carefully crafted mechanism for defending and protecting the Constitution and ensuring the survival of democratic freedoms.

Read it all:  Betraying Thomas Jefferson

After reading this list, it is not surprising that some people struggle with the English language.